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I would absolutely have eventually gotten spoiled before I reached that point because I have forgotten so much ( i was halfway through dressrosa) I may even have to read from marineford, since its where i stopped watching the anime.
I don't really understand it though, maybe that changes things.
Oh well I get spoiled on things all the time I haven't watched, its super hard to not stupidly click things. Once I had I just went and read the last two chapters to get it out of the way.
Episode 9 of Symphogear GX. This coming Saturday we're going to marathon 9-13 and the OVAs. Maybe do one episode of AXZ?
It's because they don't have enough ads. (Same reason for showing "in-house" ads.) Youtube can manage actual companies you've heard of for ads, but Crunchyroll doesn't have that kind of reach. When you have, like, four ads you can show, your options for cycling through them are all terrible. (And even Youtube doesn't have that much variety, and have been pushing Premium lately.)
Anyway, the economics of even video ads are awful. Maybe a couple cents per ad, which compares quite unfavorably with $5/month from a subscriber, and you have to stream video for those cents. I can see Crunchyroll doing the math and realizing that they just don't want to chase after those cents. Hard to actually prove this, as Crunchyroll isn't a publically-traded company, (but was owned by a publically-traded company? Point is, there's no Earnings report) but there's a good reason so many video sharing sites folded over the years. I think there's room to pursue the bargain crowd, but I really can't blame them for dropping the free access.
Except they didn't do it back during VRV time when everything was one sub.
Everything is pushing subscription lately. The ad market is losing. Video is just the most expensive thing to push and is why so many companies die trying to get into the market.
Does any of the big services offer free stuff like that? Hulu I guess? Though hell they still do ads even when their sub tiers last I used it.
Hulu and Peacock have free tiers. No one wants YouTube's paid tier.
Edit: This isn't right, Hulu ended the free version at some point in the past.
But if Crunchyroll only has enough advertisers for, say, two of a four-slot ad-break, why not just drop the remaining two slots?
Do they get paid for every time it's repeated?
And if they do, why would advertisers agree to pay for their ads used as "filler"?
I mean regular ads are bad enough but they've gotta know that having to sit through the exact same video four times in a row per ad-break, per episode just creates an negative experience for the watcher. I've often sat through the same ad multiple times thinking, "This ad-spot doesn't even make sense. They literally just showed me this. I've already been advertised to. I couldn't possibly be more aware of Genshin-fucking-Impact. It is now a brand of have decidedly negative feelings toward."
Then again, I guess that could be the point. The more unpleasant the free option, the greater the incentive to pay.
The free option isn't there to be super profitable, it's to keep people in your ecosystem, both away from competitors and to discourage piracy. Once someone has the software and knowhow to easily get those shows elsewhere they'll be less likely to pay for it in the future, especially now that streaming is fracturing into a hundred different services, all wanting a full sub, with the exact same total pool of cash available.
The best free option is, of course, Tubi.
Now there are multiple, unskippable ads on every video. Even videos that are only a few seconds long have ads as preamble.
And some of the ads, though skippable, are more like infomercials. I once realized a video I'd had on in the background had gone to commercial 15 minutes ago, only to discover that the "ad" was an hour and twenty minutes long. A video in the middle of my video, as it were.
But at the same time I guess I'm not... owed free, uninterrupted viewing.
But holy shit are they pushing the limits of tolerability.
I imagine that from outside it seems pretty abstract for a spoiler.
But she has no experience in this arena/domain of literature, so she emailed me.
And now I bring this question to you.
Lets design a list of ten age-appropriate properties/books to recommend to my coworker for our high school library.
Pluto.TV and Youtube as well!
*Gets flashbacks to our recent "Top 50 games of all time" thread*
Ummm, anyway!
1. Fullmetal Alchemist
2. Kaguya-Sama: Love is War
3. (???) Ancient Magus Bride (???)
Yokohama Kaidashi Kiko
(I guess it technically has some light nudity, but not explicit)
My Hero Academia seems a solid pick for that age bracket as well.
Komi San Can't Communicate perhaps? Heard good things about that one re:portrayal of social anxiety and it's a comedy.
Black Clover. The dumb feel-good power of friendship shonen for all ages but especially teenagers.
What age (freshman books aren't necessarily the same as senior books), what setting (is this a conservative or religious school?), and what volume of books is being considered? No matter what the answers, Yotsuba is the easy get. Some other ideas:
-Laidback Camp
-Girls' Last Tour
-Kino's Journey
-Gon
-Azumanga Daioh
For the next set, I'm going to list in terms of, no strict content restrictions. I do interlibrary loans literally all the time and these often come from high school libraries.
If they specifically want some "boy" stuff:
- Naruto
- Bleach
If they specifically want some "girl" stuff:
- Anything by Io Sakisaka (Ao Haru Ride; Love Me, Love Me Not)
- My Love Story
- A Sign of Affection
- Nana (this one is older teen for sure)
It's the dread nipple that's arcane and forbidden in this society.
I-
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Okay, you may have a point.
Permission to replace FMA with Silver Spoon?
Well, "will never be completed" might be an issue too.
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I would also probably try to limit the dumb battle series junk food, even if I enjoy that stuff as well
I got real worried about the state of the show when they inserted a kid character into it, and while the second half was definitely not as strong for me as the first, I think it manages to hold it together.
Yes and? They're the age for YA, that's gonna be a subject matter that can be explored. After MG the gloves come off in stories. It's why YA is so vast and popular, and YA is specifically geared to be the introduction to more dark subjects.
They may not yet be legal adults but they're not children, at least when it comes to media.
Hunter x Hunter is finished though. After the big tree it ended. There is nothing after, the story is done, the climax reached and resolved.
I will not be taking any questions and any mentions of a boat will be taken as the ramblings of a madperson.
-- Age: 15 year-old to 18 year-old
-- Setting: Small town/semi-rural community (conservative/liberal leanings probably split down the middle)
-- Volume of Books: I can't say as I wouldn't be ordering these
And the war crimes!
And the body horror!
And the crimes!
Come to think of it, child neglect is one of the least worst things goi- *remembers Hawkeye's whole "my dad tattooed his research on my back" sitch* You know what, never mind!
Let's take FMA off that list for now, shall we?